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Please respond to the topic below in a well-organized essay relying on at least TWO secondary sources that address the literature. Your sources should address an academic audience and may be articles or books. Please take time to think through your approach to the question, organize the information you plan to introduce in order of effectiveness or importance, and support your assertions with specific passages or examples from the literature you have chosen to examine. You may also take into account the assigned critical essays on reserve (and secondary sources listed on the syllabus), all of which provide a concise overview of medieval institutions, sensibilities and mores we discussed in class. Use databases JSTOR AND Project Muse TO FIND SECONDARY SOURCE TOPIC: Identity in Medieval Romance Identity is a central concern of medieval romance. In the literature we examined it is associated with birthright, cultural origin, parentage, transformation, and cultural as well as religious adaptation. In “Sir Orfeo” and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the construction of knightly identity is related to birthright, education, and the exercise of virtues (classical and Christian), such as those of honor, valor, temperance, and service, and is often pursued against overwhelming odds. In these compositions the identity of the knight is tied to the tempering of the passions (that emanate from the flesh and threaten the spirit) and the pursuit of higher ideals, such as those of courtesy, restraint, and generosity. • “Sir Orfeo,” and “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” discuss the construction of the chivalric identity through the main character’s relation to female identity and his evolving understanding of justice, courtliness (gentilesse), honor (trouthe), shame, and service. Your paper should be approximately 10 pages in length, typed, double-spaced, and neatly presented. • Consult the MLA style for writing academic papers on the blog.
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